History of the Peloponnesian War

The three hundred attacked and took the stockade, the guards leaving it and fleeing to the outwork around Temenites.[*](cf. 6.75.1.) And their pursuers burst in with them; but these, after getting in, were forced out again by the Syracusans, some of the Argives and a few of the Athenians being slain there.

Then the whole army withdrew and pulled down the counter-wall and tore up the stockade, bringing the stakes over to their own lines, and set up a trophy.

The next day the Athenians, starting from the round fort, began to fortify the bluff which is above the marsh,[*](The Lysimeleia.) where on this side of Epipolae it looks toward the Great Harbour, and where they would find the line of circumvallation shortest as they came down through the level ground and the marsh to the harbour.

The Syracusans meanwhile also went out and proceeded to build another stockade, starting from the city, through the middle of the marsh;